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This subseries contains a written history of the first three operations of the Community House at 534 Queens Avenue in London, by the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London, Ontario. This includes Fontbonne Hall Home for Children orphanage from 1951 to 1965, then Madame Vanier Children’s Services, a psychiatric residential treatment centre, from 1965 to 1972, and when it became a group home for teenagers named Internos from 1972 to 1979. The records in this subseries also document various business developments related to the management of the building and operations of the orphanage including the formation of a Fontbonne Hall Board of Directors in 1954, an Advisory Board, the Fontbonne Auxiliary, the Fontbonne Hall Orphanage Building Fund, and various Committees (Finance, Programme, Public Relations, Property and Maintenance, Nominating and Executive) to advise and assist in all issues in childcare. A new Board of Directors named the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of London formed in 1964, and the Fontbonne Hall Board of Directors and Advisory Board disbanded on June 20, 1965. In addition, this subseries contains photographs that depict a group of Sisters of St. Joseph on the front steps at Fontbonne Hall, Mother Julia Cecilia Moore and Madame Pauline Vanier at the opening of the Madame Vanier Children’s Services, the all-female Presidents of the Fontbonne Auxiliary, the chapel at Fontbonne Hall, and the front exterior of the Community House at 534 Queens Avenue in 1951.

The sous-fonds contains policy manuals, newspaper clippings, intake procedures, photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, meeting minutes, financial records, as well as the record book and cash book of the Fontbonne Auxiliary. It also contains information about the history of the building, the children who were at Fontbonne Hall and the people who were involved in their care. There is also information about how the purpose of Fontbonne Hall changed throughout its time in operation.

The subseries contains detailed daily menus, a collection of Mount St. Joseph recipes, meal rotation charts an alphabetical recipe index, a master recipe file, and a collection of recipes belonging to Sister Josepha Zimmer.